Ropeadope will release a soundtrack album for the PBS documentary Henry David Thoreau. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Cieri (The Vietnam War, Oklahoma City, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, Hemingway). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Monday, March 30 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Henry David Thoreau is executive produced by Ken Burns & Don Henley, directed by Erik Ewers & Christopher Loren Ewers, narrated by George Clooney and features the voices of Jeff Goldblum (as Henry David Thoreau), Ted Danson (Ralph Waldo Emerson), Tate Donovan (William Ellery Channing) & Meryl Streep (Lidian Emerson,Mary Merrick Brooks, Margaret Fuller & Maria Thoreau). The 3-part film examines the life and work of the titular 19th-century writer in the context of antebellum New England and the larger United States, as well as through the universal themes he focused on in his writings. The documentary will premiere on March 30 & 31 on PBS.
Here’s the album track list:
1. For a Suffering Earth (2:07)
2. Saint Lawrence (2:21)
3. Miles of Still Water (1:35)
4. Pennyroyal (1:56)
5. Breathing Trees (2:17)
6. Warm Beds, Warm Full Blooded Life (1:58)
7. Fairhaven (1:27)
8. Shunyata (2:25)
9. Monkshood (2:32)
10. Saint Lawrence Revisited (2:55)
11. Miles of Still Water Revisited (1:28)
12. Brockengespenst (1:53)
13. The Rest Is Silence (1:27)
14. Pennyroyal Revisited (2:38)
15. Sparrow (2:13)
16. Prelude to a Strain (2:29)
17. Heraclitus (3:13)
18. The Rest Is Silence Revisited (1:40)
19. Fairhaven Revisited (1:31)
20. Woodthrush (2:29)
